Since plays are reviewable now, why can't the referees review plays when elbows and stuff are thrown? Cause it seems like they keep saying a lot lately that 'if the referrees would have seen the elbow, so and so would have been ejected'. Kobe should have gotten suspended from what I hear.

Since plays are reviewable now, why can't the referees review plays when elbows and stuff are thrown? Cause it seems like they keep saying a lot lately that 'if the referrees would have seen the elbow, so and so would have been ejected'. Kobe should have gotten suspended from what I hear.

No, you don't get suspended unless you throw an elbow ABOVE the shoulders...Kobe didn't do that. The NBA did review that play and they slapped Kobe with a Flagrant 1 and a fine...but it wouldn't make any sense for them to suspend him because he didn't elbow him above the shoulders...it was right on the chest.